Seven indigenous elders from the Northern Territory have had their thoughts on the federal intervention published in a book being launched in Melbourne today.

The book, Walk With Us, was compiled by a group called Concerned Australians, which campaigns against the federal government's emergency response in remote communities.

It calls on Australians to campaign against the intervention.

Editor Michele Harris says the elders, from areas such as Utopia, Wallaby Beach and the Daly River, all spoke of feelings of helplessness arising from the intervention.

"(This was because of) the intervention, followed very shortly after by the shires, the loss of control, communities that lost their community councils, their bank accounts frozen, their equipment removed or taken by the shires, decisions that were made sometimes very far from the communities themselves," she said.

"The real feeling ... of the disempowerment of the whole exercise, it is very mingled in with the direct issues of the intervention and continues to be."

Ms Harris says the elders are furious about what the intervention has taken from them.